The continuing saga of one girl’s plight with unemployment…(read vol I, vol II, vol III, vol IV, vol V, vol VI and vol VII) Month five of unemployment. This is about the time you start to realize you should do things like finally read Shantaram because, well, you’ve got a lot of hours to spend […]
27
Aug
Dumb as a Fox
28
Jul
Big, dumb fun in the cockeyed caravan
The continuing saga of one girl’s plight with unemployment…(read vol I, vol II, vol III, vol IV, vol V and vol VI) The pool parties have kinda dried up, for now. They’ll be back, sometime in my life. I hope. That exhilaration that swirled around me during a sunny couple of weeks in July seems […]
The continuing saga of one girl’s plight with unemployment…(read vol I, vol II, vol III, vol IV and vol V) That’s right. I am living large. Like MTV Cribs large. Like Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous fancy. Like Oprah, if Oprah floated in Malibu pools sipping sangria. And I’ve probably never been so poor. […]
30
Jun
Sallie Mae vs. Grizzly bear hides
The continuing saga of one girl’s plight with unemployment…(read vol I, vol II, vol III and vol IV) Remember the nice guy who worked at the Genius Bar, and who told me to call a 1-800 number and use the word “inconvenience” a lot, so I could maybe get my MacBook fixed for free? Well, […]
22
Jun
How Jerry Springer (almost) made me do it
The continuing saga of one girl’s plight with unemployment…(read vol I, vol II and vol III) It was handed to me a week ago. An innocent looking, baby-blue postcard. A casting call for a dating game show. My nightmare, really. But when you are jobless, and your nightmare promises $500 for a single day’s work, […]
4
Jun
An Ode to Floyd with the Honey Bear Bong
The continuing saga of one girl’s plight with unemployment…(read vol I and vol II) My laptop is in sad shape. The screen suddenly only works if it’s propped at a 45-degree angle or less. Actually now it’s creeping down to a 35-degree angle. This presents a problem because: A. I can’t afford the $250 and […]
27
May
The things we do for…rent money
The continuing saga of one girl’s plight with unemployment…read vol I here… I’ve had some silly jobs. I mean, I’ve never stood on the side of a busy street wearing a hot-dog costume, dancing around and waving a sign like a maniac just to try and lure people into a fast-food joint. Not yet, anyway. […]
14
May
“Do You Have Any Hope?”
You know that old song, “Take This Job and Shove It?” The one sung by some dude named Johnny Paycheck, about a man fed up with working long, hard hours for a lame fat-cat boss? A few months before I got laid off, when I was in the la-la land of believing my job was […]
